Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking of the tariff question, Mr. Sheldon explained why it was necessary for Australia to have a strict protective tariff. Australia, as shown in the past war, must be self-supporting; her industries must be protected. America is her nearest neighbor, and she is 8000 miles away. The results of this tariff policy are shown in the recently founded steel industry, which already supplies the country's needs for rails and all kinds of structural steel...
Canadian and Canadian newspapers will naturally find it difficult not to resent keenly the action of this gutter element among our nearest neighbors at the expense of an emblem which means a good deal to us. But we should realize that the insult is less to the British flag than to the United States itself...
...CRIMSON representative that it was his aim to build up a five-man team this year, every member of which quintet shall be in action every moment of the game. He will not try to build a team around any one star performer, rather is the man nearest the basket to shoot for the basket. "Basketball has developed into a passing game now, and team work is the first essential to be learned." For the first week or two, only the fundamentals of the game are to be practiced and no team will be picked until every...
...bunching its men and winning the second, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth places, the Providence Technology Institute easily defeated its nearest rival, Williston Academy, by 50 points, and won the annual Harvard Interscholastic cross-country Meet. Worcoster North High barely nosed out Wakefield High by one point for third place...
...Sipp, who threw the weight 37 feet 6 inches. C. C. Carpenter and A. T. Raymond of Gore were the next men. The hammer throw went to Bright of Standish, whose distance was 76 feet 10 inches. A. T. Raymond and C. C. Carpenter of Gore were his nearest contenders...